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Barcelona, Spain Day 3 - Tibidabo
Jul 24, 2008 (63 photos)

The way our apartment is set up, with a large living room and dining area together with several large windows (none with dark blinds), ... it ends up that we bring the kids portable beds in to our room with us so that they aren't woken up by the sun in ...

Barcelona, Spain Day 5 - La Sagrada Familia
Jul 26, 2008 (70 photos)

If I could figure out a way to get Ella to stop sucking her thumb it would make me really happy. (I once tried the route of putting hot sauce on her finger, but she cried so desperately in fear I couldn't bring myself to follow through ... plus, knowing ...

Spain Day 20 - Mas Amigos
Jul 18, 2008 (51 photos)

Today, I get up super early by our Spanish trip's standards ... 7am. A quick thirty minute drive to the Reinosa train station to drop off Bob and Rachel. They've been with us two and a half days, and today they leave to head back towards Madrid where they ...

Spain Day 9 - Vamos a Pamplona
Jul 7, 2008 (79 photos)

... of our home exchange couple, and Alfredo is her boyfriend. The one question mark in all of my planning for this great Ireland/Spain/France adventure was what we were going to do for Pamplona. Rooms are outrageously expensive (as in 600 euros for one night ...

Spain Day 17 - Friends from home & Santander
Jul 15, 2008 (26 photos)

... to sleep in, go shopping, and then pick up Bob and Rachel Burt from the local train station. As it happens, they are in Spain celebrating their remarriage and so we invited them to stay with a couple of days! Janice wakes up with a new idea, "Its such ...

Spain Day 6 - Vamos a San Sebastian!
Jul 4, 2008 (41 photos)

... lunch reservations tomorrow. Can't wait! *** PS - side note .. I was finally able to upload the video we made of our home in Pie de Concha. Its under the Spain Day 5 entry now, titled The GRAND TOUR! If you haven't seen the video yet, go check it out!

Barcelona, Spain Day 4 - Free Museums for us!
Jul 25, 2008 (33 photos)

... (the main reason we were going to go), and a recreation of all the different types of pueblos that can be found throughout Spain (I'm forgetting the name of this place at the moment). Instead, we decide to visit three nearby museums, find a place for the ...

Spain Day 12 - Back home
Jul 10, 2008 (6 photos)

... . Egads! Glad I'm not in Sacramento right now (plus the AC went out at the office). The good news is that our Spain home exchange friends took a trip down south for a week, and hopefully when they return there will be some improvement. This morning, we ...

Spain Day 3 - BBQ & Orena
Jul 1, 2008 (34 photos)

... the girls in the program. Basically, Billabong did an online promotion giving food, entertainment, and free surf lessons to women in Spain. They are doing like 6 stops.We just happened to hit the stop here in Northern Spain. I tried to enter with the kids ...

Spain Day 1 - Chillax ... and stupid Asher
Jun 29, 2008 (12 photos)

... tall, white, skinny. Not exactly the Spanish type, I figure. I walk a little longer and think again ... or ...wait a minute, tonight Spain wore RED, Germany wore WHITE. Lo' and behold, I'm wearing white head to toe. To make matters worse, I hadn't changed ...

Spain Day 15 - Calzada Romana
Jul 13, 2008 (43 photos)

... (which we later found out is only served as dessert with a full 'menu del dia'). They do things a lot differently here in Spain, particularly in restaurants. At first, it was cool to experience the different culture ... but at this point, I have to say I ...

Barcelona, Spain Day 2 - Beaches & a scary evening
Jul 23, 2008 (9 photos)

Yesterday was a great day. We hope today to be similar. We start out with Janice heading down to Starbucks for internet access while I hang with the kids. The plan is to meet an hour later. Turns out that Starbucks doesn't have wi-fi, I go there ...

Spain Day 7 - La Sociedad
Jul 5, 2008

... pigs in a blanket, basque style. A very mild Chorizo baked in to a pastry shell.) Second, ... Gaspacho (de Southern Spain ... tomato, onion, cucumber, pepper, garlic, oil, vinegar, salt, water ... blended, served cold). Third, ... Ensalada Mixta ( ...

Madrid.
Mar 8, 2008 (42 photos)

Madrid

A collection of untold stories from the road.
Apr 2, 2006

Through this blog I have tried to retell some of the most memorable stories from my trip around Latin America. As you may have noticed, a lot of the blog entries are just random thoughts while others actually try to describe some of the adventures I went ...

Photos from a stamp collector (Part 4).
Mar 5, 2006 (99 photos)

The last one, I promise. Enjoy!

The Japanese wildebeest stampede.
Oct 2, 2006 (15 photos)

... hours. Unfortunately we were both wrong as we didn't take into account a Japanese wildebeest stampede on a 48 hour swipe around Spain... After visiting some friends of Johana in Valencia on Saturday afternoon, it was time to head for my apartment in ...

Rafting the Gallego River.
May 22, 2009 (14 photos)

This short two days work trip rafting the Gallego River, surely brought my memories back to my trip around South America in 2005. The sun is shining, the scenery is beautiful and while floating down the river watching big birds soaring  ...

Alcossebre and Peñíscola.
May 4, 2008 (11 photos)

Alcossebre and Peñíscola again.

Spain day 21 - The Painted Forest
Jul 19, 2008 (101 photos)

... only active language with no links to any of the ancient languages) to food to music to ... well, everything. I won't be shouting "SPAIN!" here during photo ops, that's for dang sure. Parking is tough in this little city. We have a funny encounter with ...

Spain Day 5 - 100% Pie de Concha
Jul 3, 2008 (68 photos)

... up to a place in the mountains where the only trace of civilization was the large bridge in the distance (their highways in Northern Spain are all really nice). Other than that it was just beautiful green mountains, with the sound of a creek below, and a ...

A work trip to Basque Country.
Jun 25, 2009 (23 photos)

I just stayed a few days in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country for work. Nothing much happened as you can see from the pictures. Basically I was working during the day and roaming the streets at night looking for restaurants serving up good Pintxos.

A friendly Brazilian saves the weekend.
Mar 26, 2006

... 's on fire)." I had a great chat with this friendly Brazilian who I never got the name of. We talked about Latin America, Spain, Norway, how we both had ended up in Colonia Jardin, women, travel, the World Cup in football coming up this summer, and of ...

Madrid celebrations.
Jun 30, 2008 (12 photos)

Madrid celebrations.

Madrid.
Jul 18, 2008 (25 photos)

Pål visiting again.

Madrid.
Dec 28, 2006

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Welcome home! (Spain Exchange arrival)
Jun 28, 2008 (22 photos)

... we are under budget by 20 euros. Woo hoo! Ok. One thing I've almost forgotten to write about: Apparently all towns throughout Spain have a patron saint. Each year, a festival is held in honor of that saint. We just happened to arrive on the first night ...

My Bullshit Bingo thoughts in the Spanish capital.
Feb 15, 2006

I am halfway through my third working week here in Madrid, and although it's not exactly easy to be back in a cubicle, constantly being bombarded with questions in technical Spanish (questions I probably knew the answer to 16 months ago, but that's now ...

Checking out the neighborhood.
Aug 17, 2009 (10 photos)

Checking out the neighborhood.

Spain Day 11 - Bilbao
Jul 9, 2008 (34 photos)

Well darn. Last night I stayed up later than I had planned. Needed to handle some stuff at the office so I didn't end up in bed until after 1am. And actually, I could have stayed up another hour making calls but I was just so exhausted I didn't want to ...